Ellsworth High School - Maine
Interviewee Sort ascending | Collection | Description | Interviewer | Date of Interview | Location of Interview | Affiliation |
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Brian Langley | Ellsworth High School - Maine |
Brian Langley is a a culinary arts teacher and local restauranteaur. Langley learned the restaurant business from his father and discovered his passion for cooking when he took a culinary program in high school. His seafood-centered restaurant, the Union River Lobster Pot in Ellsworth, Maine, is based on the lesson that you have to sell what people want to buy, not what you want to sell. Langley serves a variety of fish but the top sellers are salmon, halibut, scallops, shrimp, and clams. |
Matt Homich, Rick Trombley, Zac Lutz, Candice Macbeth | Ellsworth, ME | NOAA/NMFS Local Fisheries Knowledge Pilot Project | |
Bob Hessler | Ellsworth High School - Maine |
Bob Hessler is the manager at Maine Shellfish Company, a shellfish wholesale company. His responsibilities are accounting, data processing, and purchaser of lobsters. |
Cassie Cloak, Alisa Gibeault, Sarah Gauvin | Ellsworth, ME | NOAA/NMFS Local Fisheries Knowledge Pilot Project | |
Billy Haas | Ellsworth High School - Maine |
Billy Haas is a lobster fisherman, commercial urchin diver, and scallop diver. He has been involved in these activities for about fifteen years. His daily schedule varies throughout the year. He works for ten months and takes two months off, usually during May and June. During the slow period, he prepares for lobstering, which begins at the end of June. |
Shelby Pollack, Sheri Wilder | Ellsworth, ME | NOAA/NMFS Local Fisheries Knowledge Pilot Project | |
Billy Grindle | Ellsworth High School - Maine |
Billy Grindle, is a fisherman who used to fish for various types of fish from Eastport, Maine to California. He fished for scallops, lobsters, tilefish, butterfish, squid, mackerel, herring, porgies, giant Atlantic bluefin tuna, and oysters. Billy started fishing at the age of seventeen and continued until he was thirty. He owned a forty-foot boat but also worked on larger boats up to a hundred and ten feet. He kept his boat in various locations such as Northeast Harbor, Bass Harbor, Gloucester, Block Island, and Port Clyde. |
Brittany Fellis, Eric Folmer, Cameron Dows | Ellsworth, ME | NOAA/NMFS Local Fisheries Knowledge Pilot Project | |
Anonymous | Ellsworth High School - Maine |
This is an interview with the alewife agent for the city of Ellsworth, Maine. Each year lobstermen come to buy alewives for bait for the lobster. He discusses the mechanics of the fish trap and moving the fish to their spawning grounds. He discusses the life cycle of the alewife and the importance to the lobster harvest. He discusses the sea birds that follow the fish and the competition that develops among them. |
Brandon Lane, Anna Briggs | Ellsworth, ME | NOAA/NMFS Local Fisheries Knowledge Pilot Project |